If you think your compass has been directing you true north, you are wrong. At some point over the next two weeks compasses at Greenwich will point true north for the first time in about 360 years. And for some parts of the UK, this may not happen for another 20 years.

A warning from climate change experts that the UK needs to quickly plant a lot more trees has prompted readers to ask how they can help. At best we need to more than double the amount of trees we plant to achieve our carbon reduction targets, experts have said. Here are some of the things our readers wanted to know about tree planting.

England win the men's World Cup for the first time as they beat New Zealand in a Super Over in one of the most incredible games in cricket history.

One English police department is trying a new, creative way to tackle isolation and loneliness among elderly people. Starting with a simple bench. The Avon and Somerset Police Department set up "chat benches" in two local parks in southwest England meant to spark conversation between residents. The benches feature a friendly sign that reads, "Sit here if you don't mind someone stopping to say hello!"

Beestonbirdman has some wonderful bird photography. Go have a peek.

The number of seabirds on an island in the Bristol Channel has soared following the eradication of rats, conservationists have revealed. There has been a boost in the numbers of Manx shearwater, puffins and guillemots on Lundy Island 15 years after a project to remove rats ended. The RSPB said the number of seabirds on the island, off Devon, had tripled to 21,000.

Ashley was circumcised at the age of five. He had the medical procedure due to a tight foreskin but believes it should not have taken place. The 31-year-old from Loughborough, Leicestershire, says it has affected him both physically and psychologically. But he's trying to help himself by using a technique called foreskin restoration.

A piece of stone drilled from Stonehenge, a mysterious circle of ancient stones in southern England, has been returned to the site 60 years after being removed during archaeological excavations, English Heritage said on Wednesday.

Travelling circuses will be banned from using wild animals from next year. Environment Secretary Michael Gove announced a new bill to prevent animals such as reindeer, zebras and camels being forced to perform in circuses in England. The move has been welcomed by animal rights groups who have campaigned for years to stop the ‘cruel spectacle’ of performing animals.

“Pest” bird species such as crows, woodpigeons and jays can no longer be freely killed in England after the government’s conservation watchdog revoked the licence permitting it. The move by Natural England came after a challenge to the legality of the “general licence” by a new environmental group, Wild Justice, created by conservationists Mark Avery, Ruth Tingay and Chris Packham.

In 2015, WIRED published a list of the ‘dark web drug lords who got away.’ That list included the Dread Pirate Roberts 2 (DPR2), the creator of the second Silk Road site, which launched almost immediately after the FBI ended the first with the famous arrest of founder Ross Ulbricht. Under DPR2, Silk Road 2 went on to rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. The FBI shut that one down too and arrested its remaining administrator. By that time, DPR2 had already passed ownership of the site on and, publicly, it looked like he had evaded prosecution.

After about 15 years working in the meat industry, butcher Brian Kavanagh found he was concealing a secret. Much of his adult life had been spent shaping, slicing and trimming animal products by the slab without a qualm - a career that began when he was just 16 in a small family-run butcher in Burnside, South Lanarkshire.

England is set to run short of water within 25 years, the chief executive of the Environment Agency has warned. The country is facing the ‘‘jaws of death”, Sir James Bevan said, at the point where water demand from the country’s rising population surpasses the falling supply resulting from climate change.

A 37-year-old mother has been jailed after becoming the first person in the UK to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM). The Ugandan woman mutilated her three-year-old daughter at their family home in east London in 2017. She was jailed for 11 years for the FGM and a further two years for indecent images and extreme pornography.

The company behind Fortnight is suing the organisers of a live event based on the video game. Exciting Events ran the unofficial "Fortnite event of the year" in Norwich last weekend, which was criticised for having underwhelming attractions. American firm Epic Games confirmed it had "issued a claim against the organisers" in London's High Court. In an email sent to a ticket holder, Exciting Events said the festival was set-up as an "unofficial" fan event.

Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, is to lose her UK citizenship. Whitehall sources said it was possible to strip the 19-year-old of British nationality as she was eligible for citizenship of another country. Her family's lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were "disappointed" with the decision and were considering "all legal avenues" to challenge it. Ms Begum, who left east London in 2015, had said she wanted to return home.

About 60 strangers turned up to the funeral of a man they had never met after an appeal from the vicar. Terence Filer, 85, died at St Martin's House Care Home in Camborne, Cornwall on 2 January. The funeral directors and Cornwall Council attempted to find people who knew him but with no success. This prompted the vicar to appeal for people to attend his funeral in Redruth. Rev Caspar Bush said it was unusual.

A huge student protest movement led almost exclusively by teenage girls and young women is sweeping Europe, and it's on the brink of breaking through in the US. So far this year, tens of thousands of high school–age students in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden have boycotted class and protested against climate change. The loose movement’s inspiration, a 16-year-old girl who began a solitary picket last year outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, has compared the protests to the March for Our Lives movement organized by the Parkland teens in the wake of a shooting at their school that left 17 dead.

A hedge fund billionaire has donated £100m to Cambridge University. The donation from David Harding, via his foundation, is the biggest single gift made to a university in the UK by a British philanthropist. The money will fund postgraduate scholarships for more than 100 PhD students and be invested in attracting students from "under-represented groups". Vice-chancellor Prof Stephen J Toope said it was "extraordinarily generous".

A farmer who became too upset when taking his lambs to the abattoir gave his flock to an animal sanctuary. Sivalingam Vasanthakumar, from Totnes, Devon, took the 20 male lambs nearly 200 miles (321km) to Goodheart Animal Sanctuaries, near Kidderminster. Mr Vasanthakumar, a farmer for 47 years, said: "I just couldn't cope any more and I had to say no." The sanctuary said the "lucky" lambs would have fetched about £9,000 if they had been sold.